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The New York Times and photo fakery
Thomas Lifson, editor and publisher of The American Thinker, writes today about what he feels is the case of the New York Times printing a fake photo from last week’s failed attempt at taking out Al Qaeda’s number 2 man Ayman al-Zawahiri:
The only problem is that the long cylindrical item with a conical tip pictured with the boy and the man is not a missile at all. It is an old artillery shell. Not something that would have been fired from a Predator. Indeed, something that must have been found elsewhere and posed with the ruins and the little boy as a means at pulling of the heartstrings of the gullible readers of the New York Times.
Lifson makes a good case, so make sure to read the whole thing.
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That was quite the expert it seemed.
I think the NY Times couldn’t have fact checked as they’ve alienated almost everybody in the military. (Hey. It’s my opinion)
The NYTimes doesn’t care if things check out. All they care is how the story/picture inflicts damage upon the Bush Administration. If they’ve pulled a Rather/Mapes, they ignore it or print a retraction in 2 point type in the classifieds.
Sister- bloggers may want to just start posting stories that are actually true from The New York Times
Good heavens! Did they learn nothing from Rathergate?
A photo is a photo not the facts of the case. The facts of the case are that Hell-fire missiles killed 18-22 people at 3:20am while they selpt including 7 women and 6 children. If the SWAT team in my town blew-up the house across the street and killed 18-22 people but not the 1 they were after—sorry wouldn’t make it. Peace
Gee, if you don’t want Uncle Sam to come knockin with high explosives, maybe you shouldn’t consort with terrorists and invite them to dinner…
steve, the photo showed the people holding up an ARTILLERY SHELL, NOT A HELLFIRE MISSLE! When the terrorista put out propaganda, you sure take it as Gospel, steve.
Yeah those doctored pics, I tell ya, what is this newspaper coming to.
Amen Severian.
Let’s see, invite someone to dinner who’s wanted on a global scale.. hmm.. shocking that something like this would happen.
Not.
When this stuff happens – blame the US. When a terrorist blows himself up and kills 50 women and children – blame the US. It’s never blame the terrorists.
The photo was used by the NYT’s as a support of their facts, therefore it would fall on the fact side of a list…in this case a false fact!
As for the CIA dropping a bomb in your neighborhood? Where do you live? Why would they drop a bomb in your neighborhood? These people that are outraged should be..at Ayman al-Zawahiri. Instead, they continue to protect him. This is the price they pay.
I just wonder what it’s going to take for a certain segment of our population to get more upset at terrorists than they are at America.
I think a mushroom cloud over an American city might do the trick. Of course by then it’s too late..
Is it fake or a mistake? If fake, that means that the NYT people know the difference between a missle and a shell.
“Gee, if you don’t want Uncle Sam to come knockin with high explosives, maybe you shouldn’t consort with terrorists and invite them to dinner”
Oh, was the terrorist there?
“Oh, was the terrorist there?”
Well, sadly, it appears Zawahiri wasn’t there, but it also appears that the people there had invited him and other terrorists to dinner. At this point one has to ask, if you are having a terrorist to dinner, doesn’t that make you a terrorist too? If you lay down in the gutter with pigs, expect to get dirty.
Inviting a terrorist to dinner.. like sleeping next to a tank on a battlefield. Expect to get hit with something.
“At this point one has to ask, if you are having a terrorist to dinner, doesn’t that make you a terrorist too? If you lay down in the gutter with pigs, expect to get dirty.”
Thats how america works: we kill kids for having invited terrorists to dinner. Its about a culture of responsibility.
The photo was intended to convey an impression to the reader who did not read the story.
Back in the days when Boss Tweed ran the Democratic Party from Tammany Hall, he never cared what people wrote about him. He knew his constituents would not read a lengthy rendition of facts. He only complained when people saw the work of Thomas Nast, the cartoonist who exposed the Tammany Tiger.
When the MSM believes they are right, they look to make a point without letting facts get in the way.
The NYT published a fake picture? Good God I hope this is not true. My how the mighty have fallen!
New York Times….ya mean that newspaper that used “eminent domain to forcibly evict 55 businesses—including a trade school, a student housing unit, a Donna Karan outlet, and several mom-and-pop stores—against their will, under the legal cover of erasing “blight” in order to clear ground for a 52-story skyscraper.”
I don’t know why this story hasn’t gotten more play in the blogosphere.
http://www.reason.com/0510/co.mw.why.shtml
When you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Now, it’s, when you lay down with terrorists you don’t wake up.
No great loss. Darwin Awards time.
I’m through feeling any sorrow for the perpetually stupid and suicidal in the world. There are enough people deserving of our sympathy and pity. Terrorist sympathizers ain’t among them.
Check out http://powerlineblog.com/archives/012857.php
“At least four foreign terrorists died in the U.S. airstrike purportedly aimed at al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader, the provincial government said Tuesday.
Pakistani intelligence officials have said Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant, had been invited to a dinner in the targeted village of Damadola to mark an Islamic holiday but did not show up and sent some aides instead.
“Four or five foreign terrorists have been killed in this missile attack whose dead bodies have been taken away by their companions to hide the real reason of the attack,” the statement said, citing the chief official in the Bajur region where Damadola is located.
“It is regrettable that 18 local people lost their lives in the attack, but this fact also cannot be denied, that 10-12 foreign extremists had been invited on a dinner,” it said.”
Don’t expect the MSM or the NYT to bring this to anyone’s attention though.
More: LINK
“Jan. 18, 2006 — ABC News has learned that al Qaeda’s master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert was one of the men killed in last week’s U.S. missile attack in eastern Pakistan.
Midhat Mursi, 52, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, was identified by Pakistani authorities as one of three known al Qaeda leaders present at an apparent terror summit conference in the village of Damadola.
The United States had posted a $5 million reward for Mursi’s capture. He is described by U.S. authorities as the man who ran al Qaeda’s infamous Derunta training camp in Afghanistan, where he used dogs and other animals as subjects of experiments with poison and chemicals.
“This is extraordinarily important,” said former FBI agent Jack Cloonan, an ABC News consultant, who was the senior agent on the FBI’s al Qaeda squad. “He’s the man who trained the shoe bomber, Richard Reid and Zacharias Mousssaoui, as well as hundreds of others.”"
Hmmm…totally unjustified strike that only killed innocent children and women…riiiiight!